Coronavirus/Covid-19 Discussion Thread

[Faulkner]

An ABC News report about how doctors are delaying procedures for sick non-COVID patients and the potential deadly impact of this down the road:

 

 

[alphanguy74]

This is one of the biggest things I worry about. that a family member will have a medical emergency in the middle of all this crap. 

[DramatistDreamer]

Domestic violence is being referred to as the "shadow pandemic".

 

[victoria foxton]

Not only do we have a global pandemic. We also have crazy weather.  

  

[JaneAusten]

That mess in Chicago was caused by people driving too fast not necessarily from the weather. People getting cocky.

[DramatistDreamer]

Although we can expect climate chaos to be the source of the next life altering global crisis.

 

I'm not sure this has been posted but there's this now. This whole thing was executed so poorly with so many corporations getting more money (including Trump Inc. businesses) while small business will inevitably suffer.

 

 

[victoria foxton]

 

 

   

[DramatistDreamer]

Do Americans know the difference between heroes and martyrs? Call them heroes all you want but don't expect them to martyr themselves. The biggest thanks you can give frontline workers (medical staff, supermarket workers, bus drivers, train conductors, first reponders, custodians, nursing home attendants, nurse's aides, delivery people, postal workers, produce pickers) is not nightly applause but to give these people what they need to protect themselves! Pay them properly, offer hazard pay to those whose job was never meant to put them in contact with deadly viruses.  This is all so shameful.

 

All these people who are deemed essential workers should be getting paid well enough to support themselves and their families. People working at the supermarket or Target or driving buses to deliver meals to school kids should not have to be relying on SNAP to make ends meet. There are so many stories of this and Americans, this is shameful!

Edited April 16, 2020 by DramatistDreamer

[Soapsuds]

I was trying to recall who Aaron was. Then I remembered...I guess he has to catch up.

Edited April 16, 2020 by Soapsuds

[Faulkner]

The social and economic fallout of the pandemic (and the unacceptably modest federal response):

 

 

[DRW50]

And yet we are still hearing many say that there has been too MUCH money spent and that the only solution is to get people back to work. There's a trend on Twitter today to try to remind people that going back to "normal" is not a good thing, that "normal" was not working. Sadly, many won't listen. 

 

Reagan's election taught everyone that if you are not cutting and cutting and suffering and dying, then you are weak. And no one has tried to change this worldview. 

 

To think so many were going on about how the GOP was going to have a big populist realignment. I notice that talk has dried up to nothing and instead we're just back to trying to blame WHO, blame Fauci, blame doctors, blame governors, and shame people to kill themselves in unsafe conditions. I knew it would go back here, yet I still feel sick about it.

[DRW50]

 

[victoria foxton]

 

 

  

Edited April 16, 2020 by victoria foxton

[DramatistDreamer]

Chancellor Merkel has a science (chemistry) background and is prone to looking at the science, not from 'gut feelings' like some fools.

 

[DRW50]

 

I know Germany has its problems, but what it must be like to live in a country where scientists aren't hated and feared.

 

That doesn't have anything to do with the above, but I saw that Trump is punishing Romney by excluding him from his shambolic "re-opening" committee. Never mind that Romney is, for all his loathsome vulture capitalism, one of the only Republicans in Congress who has actually known how to operate a major business.